Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in B Flat Major RV368

[bersa888]

A detta di amici violinisti (e di Steck) questo e' probabilmente il piu' difficile dei concerti di Vivaldi... e si sente!

[CASIUSGELAEI]

Fantastic!!! ^

[SarcasmRules9]

Incrediably lovely....

[MsMacbeth22]

Exciting & exquisite....(¸.•¨¯`*•●♥Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨­̄Ʒ♥...

[crazybay46913]

Angel: Listen to my beautiful music!

Monk: I'm too hung over for that shit, go away.

[foianodellachiana]

Grandissimi gli esecutori di Modo Antiquo e grandissimo Maestro Sardelli. Reincarnazione di Vivaldi...

[usikd]

ehh dear people .. WHY does no1 play this .??? OMG .. love IT !! but you can't find any other version / other people who have played it ... such a shame ... every1 keeps playing the 4 seasons but the other works are often forgotten or neglected by most : /

[Paracelsus72]

@usikd Probably because it's too difficult ;)

[060039jtyui]

I like its rhythm and sound.

[dardoviolinV]

El sacerdote esta siendo atacado por una maravillosa melodia :D

[konzeon]

vivaldi vivaldi you'll always remain in our hearts

vivaldi live in these end times.

you remain the only one to offer vibration divine

[PurcellBach]

Haendel wrote a viollin concerto in B flat major under the title "Sonata a 5", it is a beautiful piece, an early work from Rome probably.

[azzz09zzza]

I LOVE BAROQUE MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!

[knightsintodreams]

what does RV 368 mean??

[HARMONICO101]

RV numbers are used to identify specific Vivaldi works. Each Vivaldi composition has a unique number.

[dolofonos]

It stands for _Ryom-Verzeichnis_ after Peter Ryom's catalog of Vivaldi's work. _Verzeichnis_ means "index" in German and it is this affix which is abbreviated by the "V" found in such catalog acronyms as _BWV_, _HWV_, _KV_, _SV_, _TWV_, _BuxWV_, etc. These catalogs are not always named after their author but also the composer.

[8Ho03EdONl1liL]

@knightsintodreams The Ryom-Verzeichnis or Répertoire des oeuvres d'Antonio Vivaldi (both often abbreviated RV) is a now-standard catalog of the music of Antonio Vivaldi created by Peter Ryom.

[recorder38]

Dans le concerto RV 368, le plus difficile des concertos de Vivaldi écrits pour le violon - je n'ai pas dit le plus beau - Vivaldi s'affirme comme un des précurseurs de Paganini. Jean Cassignol

[bubblykings]

So in your opinion who do you think is the better one- Vivaldi or Paganini???

[recorder38]

RV 368 is just a virtuoso oddity. Paganini's concertos are irreplaceable.

[AlainNaigeon]

Interprétation bizare ! Vivaldi était-il hystérique ?

Apparemment il dépense beaucoup d'énergie, mais elle ne passe pas dans le son qui est souvent maigre dans les aigus.

Et je trouve ça gratuit.

[ILOVECINEMA101]

In an anecdote in which Vivaldi gave a private concert, the duke said that his playing was so virtuousic that it was almost unpleasent to listen to. :)

[AlainNaigeon]

Thanks for this info

Duke Alain :-)

[gsbreath2]

Vivaldi was a violin virtuoso?! Wow I didnt even know he played!

[HARMONICO101]

Well duh, no offense. :)

Hence the Four Seasons!

[gsbreath2]

Well, most composer who have written concertos arent violinists themselves. Brahms, Shostakovich, Tchiakovsky, Barber etc....

[HARMONICO101]

But those are all modern composers. We talkin baroque here.

[gsbreath2]

how about Handel?

[HARMONICO101]

Handel never wrote a violin concerto. He wrote solos for violins in a number of works, and the style of the writing shows that he a thorough understanding of the instrument, and it's quite possible he played a bit.

Bach, who wrote some of the most famous violin pieces of the baroque, was concertino at age 17 apparently.

[alvaruvaro]

actually I read about handel, and he seems to have played the violin in the opera theatre in Hamburg when he was a young man.

[bubblykings]

Handel was really good at the violin. He was second violinist in an opera house before he wrote Almira!

[Guarneris]

Bach was also a violin virtuoso, he was concertino at 17.

[bersa888]

...a CONCERTINO (!?!)...."

[dolofonos]

You seem to be confused, bersa888. Guarneris is saying that "he [Bach] was [in the] concertino at 17." Provided that this is correct (and that the ensemble was skilled and the music demanding), Bach would have been amongst the most accomplished players, for, the parts written for the concertino group are more wanting than those belonging to the ripieno which are typically less difficult.

[bersa888]

Well, it makes more sense the way you described it, of course, because saying "he was a concertino" makes no sense in Italian :-D

[bubblykings]

Compliments for the violinist! But mostly compliments for Vivaldi. :))))))

[Harmonieuniverselle]

It's a "chef-d'oeuvre"!

[simonetom]

grande sardelli!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! che ci regala sempre queste perle!

[ComtMonteCristo]

i cant believe how someone can create something like this... i love vivaldi.

I love winter from the four seasonsXD

[thelightisahead]

Holy hell, it really is a demanding concerto! Ahead of its time in terms of its technical aspect, I'd say!

[dilaviv]

ridicule!!!

[platiniplatini]

Vas jouer avec les putes style Beyonce et Nadija la boucaque!

[dilaviv]

La musique est belle, je trouve seulement ridicule la façon de jouer Vivaldi de mr Steck. Je pense qu'il est beaucoup mieux dans un autre repertoire. Il est en tout cas un violoniste tres doue.

[platiniplatini]

Admettons, mais dans ce cas-là, que penser de Nigel Kennedy qui a pour habitude de massacrer les partitions.

[dilaviv]

Vous avez completement raison: ça me plait pas non plus l'interpretation de Kennedy mais au moin lui il est coherent et il le fait un peu pour faire scandal.

Mr Steck il dit d'etre un violoniste baroque quand sa tecnique est completement autre chose.(En le voyant jouer on dirait le circus).

Apres chaque un est libre d'avoir son propre gout. Moi j'adore la simplicité et la grace d'une Amandine Beyer ou la passionalité d'un Enrico Onofri ou meme Rachel Podger.

[HARMONICO101]

Indeed. Another piece that comes to mind as a show off piece is the concerto for two violins in D minor (I'm going to upload it soon). This piece is quite manic and it's been speculated that it was played by Vivaldi himself and Pisendel.

[AytidaRed]

flippin amazing. i wish i was that good.

[bruceleeC64]

Tricky...!

[sparebone]

One has to be very good at one's violin to perform this and at a high grade level. It is as stated not suprising that this piece hasn't been played before considering there are about 90 pieces in total of violin concertos.

[firebreathone]

when you claim that this is the first performance of this piece, are you suggesting that this had until this particular performance never been recorded in the modern era? and if so, why?

[HARMONICO101]

I wrote that this is the "first recording of this piece".

Frankly, I don't know why this wasn't recorded before. The CD notes only say that this piece is damn hard and this is the premier recording of the work. Vivaldi did write over 90 violin concertos, so I'm not terribly surprised that it took so long for some of them to be recorded.

[ChickCherub]

Actually, Vivaldi wrote a little over 250 violin concertos.

[farinellorg]

fucking good

[firebreathone]

splendid performance indeed

[lucio271]

Wonderfull!!! thank you so much MISTER harmonico101! so cool!

[ohcolonel]

This is seriously one of the most beautiful compositions Vivaldi has ever created.